RN Tomahawk Integration

Royal Navy Tomahawk Integration (RNTI) was the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) requirement for the integration of the US Tomahawk cruise missile launch capability into the Royal Navy Swiftsure and Trafalgar Class submarines.

The RNTI programme was won in October 1995, and primed by Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems, Manassas, US. Within a multi-national support team, UK Integrated Systems provided in-country subcontract management for the five UK companies that undertook development and production tasks. UK Integrated Systems also supplied dedicated support to the systems integration, installation and test programme which was being carried out in the UK.

Just 36 months after programme inception, the first non-US Tomahawk was fired from HMS Splendid in November 1998. Achievement of schedule milestones was just one of the factors involved which led to the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile project being named MOD Project of the Year (1999) by the Defence Procurement Agency.